Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Concentrating on Edexcel new curriculum on the following topics:
(i) Henry VIII and his ministers
(ii) Medicine in Britain, 1250 - Present
(iii) The British Sector of the Western Front
(iv) Superpower relations and the Cold War
(v) Weimar and Nazi Germany
(vi) British America, 1713-1783: Empire and Revolution
Edexcel Politics:
(i) UK Politics
(ii) Core Ideologies and nationalism
(iii) UK Government
(iv) Global Politics
Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History:
A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945-74.
Full contents included:
1.1 The US political system
1.2 Reasons for the Red Scare: The Cold War
1.3 Reasons for the Red Scare: events at home
1.4 McCarthy and the Red Scare
2.1 Segregation and discrimination
2.2 Brown v Topeka and Emmett Till
2.3 Montgomery Bus Boycott
2.4 1957 Civil Rights Act
2.5 School desegregation - Little Rock Nine
3.1 Protests 1960-63
3.2 Protests 1963-65
3.3 Civil rights legislation
3.4 Protests 1966-74
4.1 Student protests and Vietnam
4.2 The women’s movement
5.1 The Watergate Scandal - causes and features
5.2 The impact of Watergate
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you
Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Complete set of lessons linked to Edexcel IGCSE History:
USA, 1918-41.
Full contents included:
1.1 The USA in 1918
1.2 Reasons for the economic boom in the 1920s
1.3 The social impact of the 1920s
1.4 Problem industries in the 1920s
2.1 Attitudes and policies towards immigration
2.2 The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare
2.3 Attitudes towards black Americans
2.4 Morals, values and the Monkey Trial
2.5 Prohibition and gangsters
3.1 The Wall Street Crash
3.2 The impact of the Great Depression
3.3 Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression
4.1 Roosevelt’s aims with the New Deal
4.2 The First Hundred Days and the alphabet agencies
4.3 The second New Deal
4.4 Rural electrification
5.1 Opposition to the New Deal
5.2 Radical criticism of the New Deal
5.3 Achievements and shortcomings of the New Deal
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Easy to follow pack that guides your students through England’s relations with Spain during the reign of Elizabeth I and Philip II. The lesson links exactly to chapter 2.2 in the textbook and covers all the content from that chapter. Textbook is not necessary for the completion of these tasks.
With colourful and engaging activities to keep your students enthralled and allow them to discover the Elizabethan era at their own pace.
Keyword tasks, exam guides, card-sorts and video crib sheets, allow The Knowledge House to do the planning while you do the teaching.
There is no textbook needed for this lesson, just print out the sheets and allow your students to work their way through.
Unfinished tasks can be finished for homework.
The Knowledge House provide outstanding resources that come in colourful activity sheets that can be glued into students’ books to give a neat and glossy CW book that will be perfect for revision at the end of the topic.
Will need 1 double lesson to complete these tasks.
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Comprehensive and detailed examination of the Supreme Court and the issue of rights protection in the UK.
These lessons are specifically planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification from Edexcel.
The resources are student-led and include numerous worksheets that include extension tasks to ensure target grades of A* are met.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you are unhappy with this resource or have any query.
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Comprehensive examination of the increasingly complex and interdependent world in which we are living.
This is the second in a series of lessons from The Knowledge House that links to Chapter 2 of the new Edexcel specification on Global Politics - The state and globalisation.
This lesson examines the issues raised by globalisation and the extent to which the international community meets these needs. The lesson focuses on:
poverty
human rights
conflict
environmentalism.
This is an extremely important lesson within the Global Politics specification, as it raises the question as to whether the nation-state or the international community is best placed to meet the demands of an increasingly globalised world, highlighting the realist v liberal debate.
This is done in an engaging and student-friendly manner, with interactive worksheets and an accompanying PPT that guides both teacher and student through the content.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries about these resources.
The Knowledge House bring you an incredibly detailed set of resources for the topic on Parliament in the UK.
This lesson looks at the structure and powers of the House of Commons and House of Lords.
Our unique resources ensure that the students do all of the work. Our resources are planned in great detail, using content from the Pearson and Hodder textbooks.
Each resource links to an element of the specification and is carefully differentiated to allow students to answer progressively more challenging questions.
Getting the first task complete on each resource ensures that all students have a basic understanding of the topic and have been introduced to all keywords. Extra tasks on the resource sheet can be completed as homework.
Alternatively, the resource sheets can be handed out in advance and students can complete the work in advance of the lesson, ensuring you have all of the content completed on time.
Our resources also require no textbook, as all the content from the endorsed textbooks have been included in our resources.
Please don’t hesitate to email us on info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any queries, comments or questions.
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Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Complete bundle of lessons on the causes and major events of the First World War.
While these lessons are explicitly linked to the Edexcel IGCSE specification, they cover the content in enough depth and detail to cover World War I for Year 9 and other examination boards in depth.
Please check your exam boards content specification to ensure these sources are suitable.
There are 15 lessons complete with:
exam guide
15 lessons
15 PPTs
Over 70 colourful resource sheets with differentiated and interactive activties for students to complete.
Exam questions
The bunndle adheres to the five major areas outlined by the Edexcel IGCSE specification:
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM AND INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY,
1905–14
THE GROWTH OF TENSION IN EUROPE, 1905–14
THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN AND DEADLOCK ON THE WESTERN
FRONT
THE WAR AT SEA AND GALLIPOLI
THE DEFEAT OF GERMANY
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New Edexcel or Hodder textbook is necessary for some of the activities.
Extensive PPT and activities that links to Chapter 1.1 of the new Edexcel GCSE 9-1 textbook.
Lessons on this topic are newly planned to meet the exacting standards of the new specification; they are not recycled lessons from previous years.
Encourages independent work and includes engaging resources to bring the topic to life for students.
It also includes a glossary of all the key terms in the textbook with some spaces for extra words that may come up.
Exam guide that guides students on how to answer questions for this paper included.
Detailed lesson that explains the purpose of the Schlieffen Plan and reasons for its failure.
Also includes a lesson that gets students to produce an extended piece of writing on the reasons for the failure of the Schlieffen plan through assessing a model answer and rewriting one of their own.
Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
A series of 9 lessons looking at the Renaissance by using a thematic approach.
The following areas are covered:
Italian city-states
Origins of the Renaissance
Renaissance architecture
Renaissance art
Renaissance science
Renaissance medicine
Renaissance literature
Renaissance exploration
Assessing the greatest Renaissance individual
There is also an end of unit progress check/assessment, along with a mark scheme.
Twelve lessons linking to the new Cambridge specification:
Cambridge International AS and A Level History (9489)
Covers: Empire and the emergence of world powers, 1870-1919
Each lesson is carefully planned to meet the exacting standards of the new CIE curriculum.
Changes from (9389) specification are incorporated.
Lesson bundle includes lessons on:
New Imperialism
Scramble for Africa I
Scramble for Africa II
Domestic reactions to imperialism
Impact of imperialism on international relations
Disputes with China
Rise of Japan as an imperial power
Impact of the Sino-Japanese War on international relations
Russo-Japanese War and its impact
Changes to US foreign policy
Spanish-American War 1898
USA in World War I
There is also a collection of historical maps included, many of which are relevant for the expansion witnessed in this period (the other maps will be relevant for the other international relations options).
Our resources are fully differentiated and come with engaging, student-led activities with source material, interpretations and exam questions.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Links to both Edexcel and AQA specification - Component 2: UK Government and Optional Political Ideas
Complete pack that looks at the role of nationalism as a political ideology.
This is a detailed lesson pack that examines:
-history of nationalism
-core values of nationalism
-different strands of nationalism
-tensions within nationalism.
This is planned using both the Hodder and Edexcel textbooks. However, neither textbook is necessary for these tasks.
Engaging, instructive and student-led resources that gives a comprehensive understanding of nationalism.
Email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk with any questions, queries or comments.
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Complete bundle including:
Workbook with crib sheets linked to a series of YouTube videos on the First Crusade
10 lessons that detail the rise of the Islamic religion through to the Third Crusade
Dozens of colorful worksheets and accompanying PPTs that guide teachers and students through the lessons
Numerous GCSE exam-style questions suitable for Key Stage 3 students
An end of term assessment
Grade boundaries that allow for a Level 5-
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
Changes in medicine: c.1848-c.1948
All lessons are fully resourced and mapped to match exactly with the contents of the official Edexcel IGCSE textbook and specification.
Each lesson is accompanied by a YouTube video that explains the topic that is the focus of the lesson.
The Knowledge House lessons contain student-friendly requiring students to categorise, assess significance, sort events chronologically, comprehension, solving keyword anagrams, video-related exercises and other engaging tasks that improve students’ knowledge and understanding of second order concepts.
There are extension tasks on each resources, including, but not limited to, Edexcel IGCSE exam questions.
There are no content-heavy PPTs that encourage regurgitation and rote memorisation.
Rather, our focus is on resources created with the learner in mind.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions or queries.
Thank you.
Would suit a GCSE or AS level lesson introducing political ideologies.
This is a very basic lesson that outlines the main ideas of conservatism, liberalism and socialism, with one main thinker from each ideology.
Students then investigate the ideological stance of three mainstream politicians.